On Wed, 2017-04-12 at 16:58 +0200, Frederic Bonnard wrote: > Hi, > several patch sets have been pushed upstream linux (few did not reach it > yet) concerning additional Power9 support (next 4.11 should support P9 > pretty well). > Several of these sets were cherrypicked by Canonical into Zesty Zapus (4.10.0 kernel). > > I understand stretch is going to have linux kernel 4.9.18 It will be 4.9.something. > and experimental has 4.10 at the moment. > > If I want to see those enablements into Debian, what is my best option ? :) > - submit backports of those sets into stretch's 4.9.18 : I'm not sure the Debian > policy would allow that easily, right ? It really depends on how intrusive they are. > According to https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch03.en.html#maintain-stable > those patches should be related to important bugs. As far as P9 is > concerned, what does it correspond to ? > http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-bugs.html#s9.1.2 seems to > say that hardware support can lead to "important" bugs. Yes, missing support for POWER9 would be 'important'. > - can we expect an upgrade to 4.10 or 4.11 in Stretch in a later point release ? No, we don't make major version updates in point releases. > - when to expect 4.11 in Debian unstable/expererimental ? Should be in experimental shortly after it's released. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I'm not a reverse psychological virus. Please don't copy me into your sig.
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